Hmm, you should have used the Xerox example. That would have been more clear.
And hey, if you're okay with companies getting credit for things they didn't do while others fail to get any noteriety simply because people are too lazy to know how things really work, more power to ya. Seems to be the general direction of the nation these days.
NPR makes content. APM makes content. PRI makes content. Public stations pay them to broadcast that content. The distinction is important. I guess I'm the only one that feels that way considering the way I've been modded.
ARGH. This is the second time this has been done. NPR does not produce or distribute Marketplace. NPR has nothing to do with Marketplace. It's produced by American Public Media. Please get it right. You're even LINKING TO APM!
Marketplace is produced by American Public Media, not NPR. It often is broadcast alongside NPR shows by your local public radio station, but NPR has nothing to do with Marketplace.
So ignore it. Buy it on it's merits or flaws. If you're smart enough to percieve a marketing strategy then you're smart enough to bypass it. It's not a religion. It's a computer.
For those that can't make the distinction, the win goes to Darwin.
There's a lot of hardware thats not compatible with the apple mainboards, and I've heard some horror stories about some bits that supposedly are. But thats just my experience.
What kinds of problems did you have? I'm interested to hear about issues like this with Boot Camp before I buy. I've been hearing good things about Oblivion and Half-Life 2 so far.
The big reason I won't use a mac is hardware, whith a mac you're boxed in using only their stuff, I don't like that. I like being able to have lots of choices in hardware options and later upgradability.
Mac hardware has been fully compatible with PC hardware upgrades for years now. AGP, PCI, USB, IEEE 1394, ATA, SATA, memory technology, now processor technology, the list goes on. The only thing you can't readily change out for third party hardware on a Mac is the mainboard.
Now, granted, that only goes for the towers. Buy an iMac or MacBook Pro and your upgrade options are limited to memory, drives and external peripherals.
As a sort of lateral response to another person's comment, yes, my attitude may come across smug, but not without reason. The Mac community is the underdog and we have to fight for regognition. There are tons of misconceptions about Macs out there that make people believe that they're just not for them. After growing up with computers (I'm 26) and trying just about everything under the sun in that time, I truly do believe that OS X is the best system out there. Apple deserves that notoriety. I want people to judge the platform evenly, not only on what they've heard.
I have a desktop machine that I've been using for games for the last 5 years. I've done various upgrades, switched out components, reinstalled the OS, you name it.
As soon as I can, I'm going to stop using my desktop machine and buy a MacBook Pro.
PS - You're making sweeping generalizations about gamers on an article specifically geared toward gamers. I suggest a new strategy. Don't be a dick.
We say we have the best desktop OS in the world because we do.
OS X is more than pretty. OS X represents a great step beyond the user experience of Windows, and the reason Apple has market share is because they work their ass off trying to tell people. I'm a customer as of last year. I'll be on Macs as long as they keep innovating the way they have been. Hell, I believe in them so much I'm willing to debate complete strangers to help them see my point of view.
My advice is to try the things you normally do on a PC out on a Mac (if you have access to one, or at an Apple store). OS X is not only worth switching to, I believe it's costly not to.
Analyst says, "Woohoo! Something insignificant hasn't happened yet, so I get to analyze it! Ooh! Maybe I'll analyze some other analyst's analysis! I love my job!"
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Or simply download the video and play it back without flash. The link is on the right hand side of the Google Video page.
In other news, the Earth celebrated its 4,572,366,124th birthday yesterday. When approached for comment, the Earth joked, "Hey, you think I'm old you should go as the Sun HER age. Just do it from a distance, know what I'm sayin'?"
I'm sorry 99.999% of WoW players feel that way. Did they realize what they were buying when they started drafting $14.95 a month to Blizzard? Plot is not mutable by definition, and suspending your disbelief with other players is required to enjoy the plot that's written. Someone else mentioned it in this thread, but the plot in books isn't any different.
And to the 0.001% of WoW players that can read, man great game, right?;)
And hey, it's not the end of the world if you stop playing after a year! Just ask yourself if it was $229.40 well spent.
You and the other people in this thread that claim to have this all figured out stand to make boatloads of money if you were to get out there and do it as opposed to complaining about how others haven't.
Sorry, I didn't hear you. I was too busy talking to an unassuming cheese shop owner in Stormwind about assasinating a government official. Why he seems to have connections to SI:7 I'm not entirely sure, but he seems to know more than he lets on. Could it be its because he has closer ties to Edwin VanCleef than he wants to admit? Time will tell. Now if you'll excuse me I have to find some gnome named Tyrion if I want to stop the Defias Brotherhood from tearing the power structure of Stormwind, and by extension the Alliance, apart.
So...it's not fair since the processor has two cores? That's ridiculous. What was stopping IBM from designing the G5 with multiple cores? If Intel can fit two cores on one die and still have a near 2x speedup due to parallelization, then they win. We're comparing processor to processor, not core to core.
The comparison was from a single G5 to a single Intel Core Duo. They're both single processors with different guts. While a single core of the Intel processor is slower than the G5, the Core Duo is a faster processor overall.
Thanks for pointing that out. In my moment of weakness I just went off of the quote in the blurb. It echoed a very one-sided view of the argument. The summary should have indicated that it was a point-counterpoint piece.
I suppose I find it offensive that these blurbs are allowed to editorialize the content behind them which, in effect, IS Zonk telling me what to believe. The games page is being run in a very counter-slashdot manner, in my opinion. I believe that the posts should come from the users more than they do from Zonk directly. What was the motivation behind the policy difference?
Well, in truth, I should have just read the article. Still, I stand by my previous comments. Thanks for your reply.
HD will allow us to make better, more engaging games. It'll make them more fun, more challenging. It'll force us to innovate by creating new interfaces and new philosophies. HD will certainly improve the quality of game software, make games more accessible to the general public, and will even go so far as to absolve gaming for being responsible for violent crime.
Chess is a great game. Chess doesn't care about HD. It never did and it never will. Article gets -1 Irrelevant. Thanks for another gem, Zonk.
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Hmm, you should have used the Xerox example. That would have been more clear.
And hey, if you're okay with companies getting credit for things they didn't do while others fail to get any noteriety simply because people are too lazy to know how things really work, more power to ya. Seems to be the general direction of the nation these days.
NPR makes content. APM makes content. PRI makes content. Public stations pay them to broadcast that content. The distinction is important. I guess I'm the only one that feels that way considering the way I've been modded.
Okay...
I don't get it.
ARGH. This is the second time this has been done. NPR does not produce or distribute Marketplace. NPR has nothing to do with Marketplace. It's produced by American Public Media. Please get it right. You're even LINKING TO APM!
Marketplace is produced by American Public Media, not NPR. It often is broadcast alongside NPR shows by your local public radio station, but NPR has nothing to do with Marketplace.
*cough* Half-Life *cough*
Well, in defense, 'untraditional' still fits here since, while it isn't the first, it certainly isn't the norm.
I'm hella excited about Red Steel.
So ignore it. Buy it on it's merits or flaws. If you're smart enough to percieve a marketing strategy then you're smart enough to bypass it. It's not a religion. It's a computer.
For those that can't make the distinction, the win goes to Darwin.
There's a lot of hardware thats not compatible with the apple mainboards, and I've heard some horror stories about some bits that supposedly are. But thats just my experience.
Could you please cite some examples?
What kinds of problems did you have? I'm interested to hear about issues like this with Boot Camp before I buy. I've been hearing good things about Oblivion and Half-Life 2 so far.
The big reason I won't use a mac is hardware, whith a mac you're boxed in using only their stuff, I don't like that. I like being able to have lots of choices in hardware options and later upgradability.
Mac hardware has been fully compatible with PC hardware upgrades for years now. AGP, PCI, USB, IEEE 1394, ATA, SATA, memory technology, now processor technology, the list goes on. The only thing you can't readily change out for third party hardware on a Mac is the mainboard.
Now, granted, that only goes for the towers. Buy an iMac or MacBook Pro and your upgrade options are limited to memory, drives and external peripherals.
As a sort of lateral response to another person's comment, yes, my attitude may come across smug, but not without reason. The Mac community is the underdog and we have to fight for regognition. There are tons of misconceptions about Macs out there that make people believe that they're just not for them. After growing up with computers (I'm 26) and trying just about everything under the sun in that time, I truly do believe that OS X is the best system out there. Apple deserves that notoriety. I want people to judge the platform evenly, not only on what they've heard.
O RLY?!
I have a desktop machine that I've been using for games for the last 5 years. I've done various upgrades, switched out components, reinstalled the OS, you name it.
As soon as I can, I'm going to stop using my desktop machine and buy a MacBook Pro.
PS - You're making sweeping generalizations about gamers on an article specifically geared toward gamers. I suggest a new strategy. Don't be a dick.
We say we have the best desktop OS in the world because we do.
OS X is more than pretty. OS X represents a great step beyond the user experience of Windows, and the reason Apple has market share is because they work their ass off trying to tell people. I'm a customer as of last year. I'll be on Macs as long as they keep innovating the way they have been. Hell, I believe in them so much I'm willing to debate complete strangers to help them see my point of view.
My advice is to try the things you normally do on a PC out on a Mac (if you have access to one, or at an Apple store). OS X is not only worth switching to, I believe it's costly not to.
Analyst says, "Woohoo! Something insignificant hasn't happened yet, so I get to analyze it! Ooh! Maybe I'll analyze some other analyst's analysis! I love my job!"
Or simply download the video and play it back without flash. The link is on the right hand side of the Google Video page.
In other news, the Earth celebrated its 4,572,366,124th birthday yesterday. When approached for comment, the Earth joked, "Hey, you think I'm old you should go as the Sun HER age. Just do it from a distance, know what I'm sayin'?"
Our sample is too small.
I'm sorry 99.999% of WoW players feel that way. Did they realize what they were buying when they started drafting $14.95 a month to Blizzard? Plot is not mutable by definition, and suspending your disbelief with other players is required to enjoy the plot that's written. Someone else mentioned it in this thread, but the plot in books isn't any different.
;)
And to the 0.001% of WoW players that can read, man great game, right?
And hey, it's not the end of the world if you stop playing after a year! Just ask yourself if it was $229.40 well spent.
You and the other people in this thread that claim to have this all figured out stand to make boatloads of money if you were to get out there and do it as opposed to complaining about how others haven't.
Sorry, I didn't hear you. I was too busy talking to an unassuming cheese shop owner in Stormwind about assasinating a government official. Why he seems to have connections to SI:7 I'm not entirely sure, but he seems to know more than he lets on. Could it be its because he has closer ties to Edwin VanCleef than he wants to admit? Time will tell. Now if you'll excuse me I have to find some gnome named Tyrion if I want to stop the Defias Brotherhood from tearing the power structure of Stormwind, and by extension the Alliance, apart.
Above plot copyright of Blizzard Entertainment.
If you are downloading, you arent stealing...
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Just curious, but if cookies are biscuits then what are biscuits called?
So...it's not fair since the processor has two cores? That's ridiculous. What was stopping IBM from designing the G5 with multiple cores? If Intel can fit two cores on one die and still have a near 2x speedup due to parallelization, then they win. We're comparing processor to processor, not core to core.
The comparison was from a single G5 to a single Intel Core Duo. They're both single processors with different guts. While a single core of the Intel processor is slower than the G5, the Core Duo is a faster processor overall.
Thanks for pointing that out. In my moment of weakness I just went off of the quote in the blurb. It echoed a very one-sided view of the argument. The summary should have indicated that it was a point-counterpoint piece.
I suppose I find it offensive that these blurbs are allowed to editorialize the content behind them which, in effect, IS Zonk telling me what to believe. The games page is being run in a very counter-slashdot manner, in my opinion. I believe that the posts should come from the users more than they do from Zonk directly. What was the motivation behind the policy difference?
Well, in truth, I should have just read the article. Still, I stand by my previous comments. Thanks for your reply.
Sir, we agree. My tongue was firmly in cheek ;)
Yes. Yes, HD is vital to the future of gaming.
HD will allow us to make better, more engaging games. It'll make them more fun, more challenging. It'll force us to innovate by creating new interfaces and new philosophies. HD will certainly improve the quality of game software, make games more accessible to the general public, and will even go so far as to absolve gaming for being responsible for violent crime.
Chess is a great game. Chess doesn't care about HD. It never did and it never will. Article gets -1 Irrelevant. Thanks for another gem, Zonk.
The part about the medal was just me rambling. The second line is from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.